On March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.

Maximum Cards can be defined as a picture post card with postage stamp on the same theme and a cancellation, with a maximum concordance between all three.

Great Barrier Island pigeon post stamp.

The postmarks bore the initial of the particular post office or handling house it was sent from along with a separate time stamp.

In 2005 the Austrian post office issued a stamp honouring him.

Modern United States cancellations commonly include the date and post office location where the stamps were mailed, in addition to lines or bars designed to cover the stamp itself.

* The German post office has issued a Hannah Arendt commemorative stamp.

The U. S. Postal Service set up a temporary post office with a special postal stamp and cancellation for the occasion.

" She retired her post office cancellation stamp in 1957 when Home on the Range became Jeffrey City.

Soviet post stamp featuring Tupolev ( 1988 )

* The French post office commemorated Fabre in 1956 with a stamp depicting a portrait of him.

The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by Sir Rowland Hill, who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the postage stamp.

A total of four post paid envelopes were issued, the stamp imprint on all was oval with the head of king.

The letter was kept at the local post office, but seeing the York post stamp Rivernall refused to pay the delivery charge, claiming that he " had no correspondent at York ".

Along with this 1 ¢ stamp, the post office initially issued only two additional denominations in the series of 1851: 3 ¢ and 12 ¢, the three stamps going on sale that July and August.

. shall also be deemed mailable matter, and charged with postage at the rate of one cent an ounce .” Private companies soon began issuing post cards, printed with a rectangle in the top right corner where the stamp was to be affixed.

In 1885 the Post Office established a Special Delivery service, issuing a ten-cent stamp depicting a running messenger, along with the wording “ secures immediate delivery at a special delivery office .” Initially, only 555 such offices existed but the following year all U. S. Post Offices were obliged to provide the service — an extension not, however, reflected on the Special Delivery stamp until 1888, when the words “ at any post office ” appeared on its reprint.

This series of special printings soon became known as “ Farley ’ s Follies .” As the decade progressed, the purples used for 3 ¢ issues, although still ostensibly conforming to the U. P. U. code, displayed an increasingly wide variety of hues, and one 1940 issue, a 3 ¢ stamp commemorating the Pony Express, dispensed with purple entirely, appearing in a rust brown earth tone more suitable to the image of a horse and rider departing from a western rural post office.

In the early 1930s, Pinckney, Michigan postmaster W. C. Miller began to receive requests from stamp and postmark collectors for cancellations: Hell had no post office, instead being served by the one for Pinckney, three miles away.

For this reason the name of the country was not included within the design, a situation which continued by agreement with foreign post offices, provided the sovereign's effigy appeared on the stamp.

On 5 March 1963, the Canadian post office issued a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski on the 150th anniversary of his birth.

US post stamp celebrating Kossuth as a patriot, statesman and freemason

A local post stamp of Thule, Greenland.

However, any inclusion of lead or lead solder will cause an English Assay office ( the building which gives English jewellery its stamp of approval, the Hallmark ) to destroy the piece.

The Chicago City Council became even more of a rubber stamp than in Richard M. Daley ’ s first terms in office.

The Leon Myers Stamp Center is a museum and office that promotes stamp collecting.

On September 14, 1929, the US Post office issued a stamp honoring General Wayne and which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland that if any bank has established or shall, without authority from the State first had and obtained establish any branch, office of discount and deposit, or office of pay and receipt in any part of this State, it shall not be lawful for the said branch, office of discount and deposit, or office of pay and receipt to issue notes, in any manner, of any other denomination than five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, five hundred and one thousand dollars, and no note shall be issued except upon stamped paper of the following denominations ; that is to say, every five dollar note shall be upon a stamp of ten cents ; every ten dollar note, upon a stamp of twenty cents ; every twenty dollar note, upon a stamp of thirty cents ; every fifty dollar note, upon a stamp of fifty cents ; every one hundred dollar note, upon a stamp of one dollar ; every five hundred dollar note, upon a stamp of ten dollars ; and every thousand dollar note, upon a stamp of twenty dollars ; which paper shall be furnished by the Treasurer of the Western Shore, under the direction of the Governor and Council, to be paid for upon delivery ; provided always that any institution of the above description may relieve itself from the operation of the provisions aforesaid by paying annually, in advance, to the Treasurer of the Western Shore, for the use of State, the sum of $ 15, 000.

The bitter memory of Russia's exclusion from the Paris Peace Conference and of the West's effort to stamp out Bolshevism at its birth boiled up within him.

Passport stamp issued at the ferry terminal to passengers to / from the UK

The $ 0. 41 stamp was unveiled in a ceremony at the University of Illinois.

President Ronald Reagan, who played George Gipp in the movie " Knute Rockne, All American ", gave an address at the Athletic & Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame on March 9, 1988, and officially unveiled the Rockne stamp.

The Scottish artist Alec Finlay has placed letterboxes with rubber stamp circle poems at locations around the world, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

A large stamp show ( philatelic exhibition ) at which collectors and dealers meet.

National governments took little heed of his administration at first with the President having to stamp the Commission's authority early on.

Most such devices include a tiny postage stamp sized LCD screen for viewing simplified ladder logic ( only a very small portion of the program being visible at a given time ) and status of I / O points, and typically these screens are accompanied by a 4-way rocker push-button plus four more separate push-buttons, similar to the key buttons on a VCR remote control, and used to navigate and edit the logic.

During his evidence, he read from the letter he had written to the Chancellor, which included the statement that a notation of paid postage could be created "… by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash …".

This is the first publication of an unambiguous description of a modern adhesive postage stamp ( though the term " postage stamp " did not yet exist at that time ).

* Variable value stamps-dispensed by machines that print the cost of the postage at the time the stamp is dispensed.

The second type of FDC is often referred to as " Philatelic ," that is, an envelope and stamp sent by someone with the intention of retrieving and collecting the mailed item at a later time and place.

Postage stamp collecting began at the same time that stamps were first issued, and by 1860 thousands of collectors and stamp dealers were appearing around the world as this new study and hobby spread across Europe, European colonies, the United States and other parts of the world.

They also meet collectors at regional exhibitions and stamp shows.

A large stamp show containing a bourse at which collectors and dealers meet.

The stamp collection assembled by French / Austrian aristocrat Philipp von Ferrary ( 1850 – 1917 ) at the beginning of the 20th century is widely considered the most complete stamp collection ever formed ( or likely to be formed ).

Sometimes a watermark in stamp paper can be seen just by looking at the unprinted back side of a stamp.

Skaters must collect a stamp in each city, and at three secret check points, and must finish the course before midnight.

The ceremony may also be held in a location that has a special connection with the stamp's subject, such as the birthplace of a social movement, or at a stamp show.

The conquistadores were horrified by the widespread acceptance of homosexuality, ephebophilia, pederasty, and pedophilia among Central and South American peoples, and used torture, burning at the stake, mass beheadings, and other means to stamp it out both as a religious practice and social custom.